[Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals by Maria Mitchell]@TWC D-Link bookMaria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals CHAPTER VII 14/29
I walk about among them. "I was there an hour to-day before I saw a person that I knew; then I met the Nicholses and went with them into a side chapel to hear vespers. Then I saw next the Waterstons, then Miss Lander; but I was unusually short of friends, I generally meet so many more. "There were kneeling women to-day with babies in their arms.
The babies of the lower classes have their legs so wrapped up that they cannot move them; they look like small pillows even when they are six months old.
I think it must dwarf them.
We Americans are a tall people.
I am a very tall woman here.
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